Resources for the Classroom

Resources

One of the challenges faced by all educators is finding appropriate resources for use with their students. The resources below are meant to give some teaching ideas and get you started in the classroom.

Education on the net: 2001.
Provenzo Jr., E.F. and Gotthoffer, D. (2001).
Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Part 2 (The internet and the world wide web for educators-The internet as a tool for your studies in education)

http://web.bu.edu/mfeldman/Students
This is a site of Web units created by Michael Feldman for use by ESL and EFL students. However, they can easily be adapted for other languages. Each unit contains instructions for the students, instructions for the teacher, links to sites related to the theme of the unit, and question sets, activities, and quizzes for the student to do.

http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations
The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet This site provides links to 9,000 radio stations around the world including the United States, Canada, and other countries of North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Oceania/ Australia.

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/TESL/Lessons
A page leading to a variety of ESL lesson plans. For an interesting sub-page: *A fun reading comprehension activity. For another interesting sub-page: *TESL: Teaching Tips and Ideas (at the bottom of the page), *75 ESL Teaching Ideas

http://www.esl-lab.com/
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab. Includes everyday conversations and listening activities for use as quizzes, and vocabularly lesson plans on audio.

http://www.europa-pages.co.uk/index.html
Resource for Pen pals This is a commercial site that provides information on language schools in Europe and foreign language materials. It includes a pen pal service.

http://www.multiculturalcalendar.com
This page lists Holy Days of 12 major religions: Aboriginal Peoples, Baha'i, Buddhism, Christian, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Wicca and Zoroastrian. Teachers can check out this website to learn what major holidays students practise.